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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Attachment The beta version of Big Smoke is shown wearing a white jersey and black trousers, with Smoke having a bald head. This can be seen on the statue of Smoke in his crack palace in East Los Santos.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month December 7, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Attachment The beta version of Sweet wore a black t-shirt, a long sleeved white undershirt, black trousers and a black skully, which can be seen in a picture inside the Johnson House.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month December 7, 2013
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Dr. Robotnik was created to be the opposite of Sonic, and to be the bad guy. During the development of the game, there was a growing debate between developers and environmentalists, and Robotnik was created to represent machinery and development, as apposed to Sonic, who represented the environment.

His egg shaped redesign came from Naoto Ōshima wanting to give the characters designs that were easy enough for kids to draw.
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Development, Inspiration
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month December 4, 2013
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Silent Hill
Silent Hill (1999)
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Due to the lack of processing power on the PlayStation for an open-world map, the developers used the fog to allow the game to load objects as the player approached them.
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Development, General
person Stryker94 calendar_month December 4, 2013
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Franchise: Metroid
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Samus' Morph Ball exists only because Nintendo's programmers couldn't animate Samus getting on all fours and crawling through tight spots.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person Stryker94 calendar_month December 3, 2013
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Fur Fighters
Fur Fighters (2000)
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The secret Fluffmatch level, Land of the Happy Moles, is based on Bizarre's former office, even containing photographs from the office itself.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person RadSpyro calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Franchise: Mario
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Koji Kondo, the composer of various Mario games, tries to make music that people can repeatedly listen to without getting sick of. He would listen to his own music for hours to see if he would get sick of it or not.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Music, Real Life
person ShadowOfTheServer calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Company: Hasbro Interactive
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With Hasbro Interactive at one point acquiring multiple studios and making increasing profits in game sales, Hasbro Interactive's former president, Tom Dusenberry, had aspirations of one day acquiring Electronic Arts.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 2, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013)
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Attachment The Priest ('Shinpu' in Japan which means 'Priest') retains his name in all versions of the game, despite having it previously changed by Nintendo of America to 'The Loyal Sage' in all versions outside of Japan in the original The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, to avoid any religious references.
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Censorship, Development, General, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
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Rosalina's Storybook was written by Yoshiaki Koizumi, who wrote it at night without anybody knowing what he was doing. The following day he presented the story to Shigeru Miyamoto, who was surprised when Yoshiaki told him that nobody else knew about it.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Company: Valve
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Along with "The Orange Box", a collection of five Valve games utilizing the Source engine, Valve was originally going to release "The Black Box", which would only contain the three previously unreleased games: Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. The Orange Box also includes Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One, each of which had already been released individually.

Production of physical copies of The Black Box was cancelled, but the collection is still available for download through Steam, using a coupon found in an ATI bundle that included an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT and a coupon for the Black Box.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person Spherix calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
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Attachment The enemy Blargg from Super Mario World is found in the game's code, but it's model and programming are unfinished. It has an animation for jumping out of lava, but doesn't do anything else.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person RetroRex calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
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The characters of Fujin and Raijin were initially designed to appear in Final Fantasy VII, however, the inclusion of the Turks made their presence unnecessary and they were shelved until Final Fantasy VIII. They were also most likely inspired by shonen-manga of the past, which ended up fitting much better into Final Fantasy VIII's cast.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person Outofmind23 calendar_month December 2, 2013
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Company: Rockstar Games
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Vice President of Rockstar games Dan Houser has stated in an interview that Rockstar is avoiding ever developing a first-person shooter video game. He stated the reason as "It's in our DNA to avoid doing what other companies are doing."
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month December 2, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)
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Majora's Mask was planned for release on the iQue Player, a Chinese version of the N64, and there are several screen captures from the game on the back of the iQue packaging. It's theorized that the game's dark undertones and imagery were deemed too violent to pass Chinese censorship laws, so the release was cancelled.
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Cancelled Release, Censorship, Development, Early Idea
person Cavery210 calendar_month November 30, 2013
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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (2013)
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Originally, the story was going to center around Edward growing up around pirates in the span of about 20 or 30 years, starting when he was 12 in the William Kidd and Henry Avery era (around 1699) and go on into the Blackbeard era (around 1716). Since both Ezio and Connor went though a similar idea (with mixed results from the fans and developers), they decided to only focus on about a decade starting in 1715, so that Edward is a young man all the way though the game, but still have him go through a tremendous arc.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month November 30, 2013
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Oni
Oni (2001)
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Attachment There were many internal disputes about Konoko's appearance in the game between the Chicago and California divisions of Bungie, which was probably brought on by the presence of other female protagonists at the time such as Lara Croft.

"Their vision of her was more overtly -blam!- than ours. We specifically didn't want her to be just another Lara Croft..." - Lorraine McLees (Bungie Artist)
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month November 30, 2013
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Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
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The Heavy Machine Gun was originally going to have limited ammo, but this limitation was given to the portable M60 machine gun instead.
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Development, Early Idea
person Megaman9000 calendar_month November 29, 2013
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Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (2010)
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Attachment A set of unused battle sprites for Eiphel can be found in the game's code. It's likely that these are early graphics that went unused, as the art style differs from the rest of the game.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Dazz calendar_month November 28, 2013
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The Sims 2
The Sims 2 (2004)
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Many features introduced in the expansion packs, like weather from Seasons and driving cars in Night-life, were going to be in the base game. However, due to an office server room fire in Maxis, the data for these and many others were lost.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month November 28, 2013
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